Unreliable Narrator Engineering

Unreliable Narrator Engineering

Three Constraints for Building a Narrator Whose Lies Serve the Plot

You know the feeling. You finish a chapter, and something is off. The timeline doesn't quite add up. The narrator mentions a detail that contradicts w...

Unreliable Narrator Engineering

When the Unreliable Narrator Breaks Your Story's Internal Logic

You write a scene where the narrator insists the door was locked. Three chapter later, a character walks through it without a key. reader notice. They...